Some people thought, well, that’s the Indian. “And the guy on the stage, “Oh, there’s an Indian on the horizon.’ Well, right then Walter came on the stage. He had his white busboy jacket on,” Dammert recalled. John Wayne Dammert, another employee, recalled the moment Bailey interrupted the opening act. “And Walter Bailey came up and said, ‘Hey, Brock, there’s a fire.’ “īrock said the 18-year-old Bailey decided on his own to go onstage in the Cabaret Room and ask people to evacuate. “We had just seated the last person in the show,” said David Brock, who was a Beverly Hills Supper Club employee. Employees recalled being notified about the fire by a teenage busboy named Walter Bailey. Local historian Bob Webster said about 2,000 people were scheduled to be at the club that night, including the employees. It was the largest facility of its kind in the Midwest, said Brian Hackett, Ph.D., director of the public history program at Northern Kentucky University. The Southgate nightspot covered over 65,000 square feet of floor space, or around 1 ½ acres. The Memorial Day weekend fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in 1977 killed 165 people. In Jefferson County, Valhalla Golf Course was a dream come true for the late Dwight Gahm. In Harlan County, the town of Lynch keeps the memories of its coal town heyday alive. At the Arboretum in Lexington, victims of Flight 5191 are remembered. It’s been 40 years since a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club killed 165 people, but the scars remain for many Northern Kentuckians.
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